Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said in the Aug. 2 Cinema review of Rear Window that Grace Kelly has "a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear." What does the abbreviation stand for ... Upper High Falutin...
...therefore understandably suspicious when, one day in 1947, a middle-aged man rushed up to her in the street and said (in Gina's English translation): "Do you want to do the cinema?" "Go to the devil," replied Gina. When the fellow protested that he was really Mario Costa, the famous regista, she made him show his identity card to prove it. Gina went to work as an extra at about $3.30 a day, soon rose to be a stand-in for a well-known actress, but was fired, she says, because the star was jealous of Gina...
This year and next, when the returns from the Italians' big gamble with multimillion-dollar productions come rolling in, will tell the tale. But no matter what the climax, it is sure, in a vital respect, to be an anticlimax. The finest hour of the Italian cinema was rung in with Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more...
Married. Groucho Marx, 58, waspish clown of cinema (A Night at the Opera) and television (You Bet Your Life); and Eden Hartford, 24, Beverly Hills model; he for the third time, she for the second; in Sun Valley, Idaho...
...Franco-London; Arlan Pictures). Director Max Ophuls has drawn on the long European tradition, as if at a taproot through time, to nourish this dainty, completely artificial floret. It is a literary picture, plainly enough, but it is also not much less than a perfect one, a new cinema classic. Luckily, too, the classic should soon be fairly popular in the U.S., even though it is spoken in French (with English subtitles). Two of its players, Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, are world-famed, and a third, Vittorio De Sica, is an Italian matinee idol who in middle...